Community Calendar

Adult Writers’ Studio is a welcoming and creative community of writers 18+ who gather to share and discuss their writing, participate in generative exercises, provide/receive feedback about each other’s work, engage in topical discussions, and support each other through peer motivation and kind, constructive criticism. Led by writer and facilitator Diane Callahan, Adult Writers’ Studio: Elevate Your Writing meets in-person every other Tuesday at Thurber Center.

Adult Writers' Studio: Finish Your Manuscript is a focused, supportive space for writers committed to completing their books with workshop leader Jen Knox. Sessions include structured peer feedback, accountability, and guidance to help you move steadily from draft to done. Whether you’re revising, generating new pages, or pushing through the final chapter, this experience will provide the momentum, clarity, and community you need to finish your manuscript.

We are living in an age where our attention span is manipulated and bombarded on a daily basis with too much information, thanks to laptops, iPads, and phones. But remember that sense of wonder as a child when walking your neighborhood and you could feel and see and smell the changes of the seasons and how that shaped your behavior? In this workshop, we will explore how to get back to a more sense-based existence—that will both inform and shape your writing, as well as help with your editing. We will discuss methods and habits that can enhance your situational awareness by using all of your senses: sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. And we will examine and discuss the writings of authors known for their descriptive ability to place the reader in a certain time and place.

Watching urban wildlife in your own backyard, taking daily walks in your neighborhood or an evening drive in the country with the windows down, or walking into a bakery and being engulfed in the aroma of freshly baked breads and cookies all are sensory experiences. In this workshop, we will complete a series of writing exercises to hone your writing skills using the power of observations—noticing the extraordinary in the everyday, and noticing the ordinary with a sense of wonder.

Adult Writers' Studio: Finish Your Manuscript is a focused, supportive space for writers committed to completing their books with workshop leader Jen Knox. Sessions include structured peer feedback, accountability, and guidance to help you move steadily from draft to done. Whether you’re revising, generating new pages, or pushing through the final chapter, this experience will provide the momentum, clarity, and community you need to finish your manuscript.

Adult Writers’ Studio is a welcoming and creative community of writers 18+ who gather to share and discuss their writing, participate in generative exercises, provide/receive feedback about each other’s work, engage in topical discussions, and support each other through peer motivation and kind, constructive criticism. Led by writer and facilitator Diane Callahan, Adult Writers’ Studio: Elevate Your Writing meets in-person every other Tuesday at Thurber Center.

Adult Writers' Studio: Finish Your Manuscript is a focused, supportive space for writers committed to completing their books with workshop leader Jen Knox. Sessions include structured peer feedback, accountability, and guidance to help you move steadily from draft to done. Whether you’re revising, generating new pages, or pushing through the final chapter, this experience will provide the momentum, clarity, and community you need to finish your manuscript.

Whether it's overthinking, a hectic schedule, or lack of confidence, nearly every writer suffers through dry seasons or times of feeling stuck in a less-than-satisfying routine. Jen Knox will share practical tips and exercises to help writers at every level bust through limiting patterns, increase momentum, and explore freely on the page. This class will include practices to help you rediscover inspiration and jumpstart your writing, such as creating and defending a writing schedule, dealing with the inner critic, and finding flow. You'll leave the class with new writing and creative resolve. Join us!

Adult Writers’ Studio is a welcoming and creative community of writers 18+ who gather to share and discuss their writing, participate in generative exercises, provide/receive feedback about each other’s work, engage in topical discussions, and support each other through peer motivation and kind, constructive criticism. Led by writer and facilitator Diane Callahan, Adult Writers’ Studio: Elevate Your Writing meets in-person every other Tuesday at Thurber Center.

We’ve all heard the old adage, “Write what you know,” and it’s true that every individual writer comes to the page equipped with a unique tool that can’t be taught: their own life story. But the adage can actually be a drawback for fiction writers, as it can trap writers in the “But it really happened” mindset (which can limit your story potential). The truth may be stranger than fiction…but it doesn’t always make the best story. A series of exercises will help you mine for and unearth great material from your life, and give you lots of tips (and traps to avoid) for using them as inspiration for great fiction.

Adult Writers’ Studio is a welcoming and creative community of writers 18+ who gather to share and discuss their writing, participate in generative exercises, provide/receive feedback about each other’s work, engage in topical discussions, and support each other through peer motivation and kind, constructive criticism. Led by writer and facilitator Diane Callahan, Adult Writers’ Studio: Elevate Your Writing meets in-person every other Tuesday at Thurber Center.